Create Bullet Lists in Apple Mail
Here are some tips on how to easily create and manage bullet lists in Apple’s Mail application.
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The apps that run on your Mac or iPhone/iPad.
Learn More About the Strength of Your Mac’s Wireless Connection
Would you like to know more about the strength of your Mac’s wireless (Wi-Fi) connection? If so, hold down the Option key and click on the Wi-Fi menu located near the clock in the upper right corner of your Mac’s screen. You’ll notice that additional details about your currently selected wireless network are displayed. I should … Read more
View All Time Stamps In Messages On Your iPhone
Have you ever noticed that the Messages app on your iPhone or iPad doesn’t automatically display a time stamp for each and every message? I know that there are times when I’ve really wanted to know exactly when a message was sent. As it turns out, you can easily view the time stamp for every … Read more
Use PhoneView To Copy iPhone Voicemail And Text Messages To Your Mac
Update April 2025: PhoneView has been discontinued and is no longer available from the developer. Have you ever wanted to permanently save a voicemail message that you received on your iPhone? Or maybe a text message or iMessage? While all of these messages are backed up to your Mac when you sync your iPhone, Apple … Read more
Easily Email Safari Web Pages or Their Addresses
Do you frequently want to email either a web page’s contents or its address? If so, here are two methods to do this using Safari version 6. Visit a web page, then go to the File menu and select Share, then Email This Page. (In older versions of Safari you do not have to first select … Read more
Make iPhone Text More Readable
Here are a couple of ways to make text on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch more readable. If you’ve upgrade your device to iOS 7, which Apple introduced in the fall of 2013, you can turn on Larger Type and/or Bold Text.
Read moreFine-Tune Your Google Image Searches
You probably know that you can search for images on Google. The easiest way is to visit images.google.com. You can fine-tune your search to view only images of a preferred size or style. After you have performed your initial search click the Search Tools button.
Read moreHow To Remove An App From Your Mac
Deleting or removing an application from a Mac can be both deceptively simple and surprisingly complex. Many applications can be deleted by simply dragging them to the Trash. However, this method will often leave small, related files tucked into various folders on the Mac. Thus, it is useful to know about some other ways to … Read more
When Should You Install Major macOS or iOS Updates?
When Apple releases a major update to the Mac operating system, called macOS, or the operating system used on iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches, called iOS, clients often ask me when or if they should install these updates.
Read moreHow To Completely Erase Your iPhone or iPad
If you buy a new iPhone or iPad, you might want to sell or give away your previous one. Before you do either, you should fully erase your old iPhone or iPad.
Read moreUse Sessions To Save and Restore Web Pages in Safari
I use and highly recommend Sessions, a Safari Extension, made by David Yoo. Sessions gives you an easy way to save and restore sessions–groups of Safari windows and tabs. Sessions can auto-save the windows and tabs that you have open. Then you can use Sessions to easily restore all windows and tabs if Safari unexpectedly … Read more
The Easiest Way to Rename a File
There are many ways to rename a file in Mac OS X. It seems that the easiest way is not necessarily well known, since I regularly find myself sharing the following information. Simply click on a file or folder icon in the Finder, then press the Return key. The file or folder’s name will be … Read more
How To Dictate Emails on Your Mac
You can dictate emails and other documents if you have OS X Mountain Lion or newer installed on your Macintosh. Many people have learned that they can use Siri on an iPhone or iPad to dictate text messages, email messages and for other purposes. Fewer people seem to have noticed that Apple added some of … Read more
How to Print From An iPhone or iPad
Would you like to be able to print from your iPhone or iPad? There are a number of ways to accomplish this. Here’s an overview of some of them.
Read moreHow to Remove Previous Recipients from Your iPhone or iPad
Do you want to remove some of the email addresses that are listed when you begin typing a recipient’s name in the To: field of an email message on your iPhone or iPad? The Mail application on iPhones and iPads automatically builds a list of recent email recipients’ email addresses. It then lists these addresses … Read more
How To Display Scroll Bars and Slow Down Scrolling on Your Mac
Starting with OS X 10.7 (Lion) Apple changed some fundamental ways that scrolling works. Specifically, the scrollbars are hidden until one moves the cursor on top of the scrollbar area, then the scrollbars appear. Additionally, the scrollbars no longer have arrows at the ends to let you slowly scroll up and down. Here are some … Read more
Easily Gather Tech Details About Your Mac
Do you want to know the age of your Mac? Do want to gather the technical specs of your Mac so you can sell it on Craigslist? Do you want to find your Mac’s serial number so you can determine if it is still covered by its warranty? If so, you could use Micromat’s free … Read more
Easily Create a Contact List
Do you store your contact information in Apple’s Contacts application? If so, you can easily create a contact list by dragging contacts into Apple’s spreadsheet application, Numbers. Numbers is not as commonly used as Excel, but the more I use Numbers the more I like it. I recently discovered this incredible feature. Contacts is the … Read more
How to Use iCloud Tabs
Have you ever found a website while browsing the web on your iPhone only to find that the text was so small you’d rather read it on your Mac? Or, have you ever started to read a web site on your MacBook Pro, but wanted to finish reading it on your iPad while in bed? … Read more
How to Sync iPhone Notes With Your Mac
Do you use your iPhone’s Notes application? Would you like to view those notes on your Mac? If your Mac is running OS X Mountain Lion, you can view them easily. In Mountain Lion Apple added a new Notes application. You can sync your iPhone notes to the Mac Notes application using your iCloud account. … Read more